Ukraine's energy minister said Russia had cut off all gas supplies to Kiev on Monday, but he guaranteed reliable gas flows would continue to Russia's European clients who get imports through pipelines via Ukraine.
"We have an announcement to make today – that gas supplies to Ukraine have been reduced to zero," Energy Minister Yuri Prodan told a news briefing.
With the supply being cut off, Ukraine has almost 14 billion cubic metres of gas in underground storage, enough to meet its needs until December, the chief executive of state gas company Naftogaz said on Monday. This should cushion the European Union (EU) from any knock-on reduction in gas supplies shipped to the EU through Ukraine
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk, sitting beside Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolev at a news briefing, blamed the breakdown of talks in a gas pricing dispute on Russia, saying Moscow had hoped to cause Kiev problems in winter. "But it is not about gas. It is a general Russian plan to destroy Ukraine," Yatseniuk ...

Chandigarh, Jun 15 : Haryana Government has decided to implement an Energy Conservation Action Plan to promote energy conservation and implement demand side management by making the solar power generation mandatory in different categories of buildings or areas with a suitable enforcement mechanism.

This post is just to help you figure out then, when it is Okay to applaud foreign funding and when it is not—because otherwise you might post something on your FaceBook page that attacks foreign funding when it is actually Okay—and then how stupid and anti-national you’ll look.

This post is just to help you figure out then, when it is Okay to applaud foreign funding and when it is not—because otherwise you might post something on your FaceBook page that attacks foreign funding when it is actually Okay—and then how stupid and anti-national you’ll look.

Why NGOs need to be brought down from their high pedestal
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The brouhaha over the Intelligence Bureau (IB) report on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) may be overdone, but we must thank the IB for at least one thing: the debate on the role of NGOs has been opened up, and it needs to continue. While the ...

'Greenpeace has been brutal in targeting both India and the Manmohan Singh government. The push to go after Indian coal is driven by its long-term agenda. What is surprising is that China has not been meted out the same treatment, despite the fact that the rise of China as an economic power has been built around generating power from coal.

The new bidding norms appeared to have revived investor interest in the power sector.
A case in point is the Kerala government, which had invited bids for supplying 450 MW of power for which 23 major power firms &mdash; the whos who among Indian power producers &mdash; prequalified for the bid.
Experts in the sector ascribed the development partly to the new bidding norms which have been implemented and partly to the cleaning up of the books of state electricity boards(SEBs).
They said that SEBs have lowered the risk of electricity generating players while the latter has enabled SEBs to resume power purchases.
The list of 23 firms available on the website of the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) who have qualified for the bid includes Adani Power, Adhunik Power and Natural Resources, Bharat Aluminium, DB Power Essar Power and East Coast Energy.
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Among others are GMR Kamalanga Energy, Ideal Energy Project, IndiaBulls Power JP Power Ventures, Jindal Power, KSSK Energy Ventures, and Lanco Power.
Bids ...

Chandigarh, June 15 : Aiming to promote energy conservation in the state, the Haryana government Sunday announced that solar power generation would be made mandatory in some categories of buildings and areas with a suitable enforcement mechanism.

The Haryana government today said it has decided to implement an energy conservation action plan under which solar power generation will be made mandatory in different categories of buildings or areas with a suitable enforcement mechanism.
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in a release here said this will lead to generation of 200 MW of power, annual saving of Rs 151 crore on coal and 16.60 lakh kilo litres of water. The annual energy saving by implementing the mandatory provisions will be 320 million units. Three lakh MTs of annual carbon emission will also be prevented in the atmosphere, he said.
In case of all residential buildings built on a plot size of 500 square yards and above falling within the limits of MCs and HUDA/HSIIDC sectors, the mandatory installation of solar power plant to be installed will be of minimum one KWp or five % of connected load, whichever is higher, the official release said. The user share on installation of minimum proposed capacity system after availing 30 % ...